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Owen Hart Men’s Tournament Quarter Final
Swerve Strickland versus Bandido
The fact this was basically announced as a feud before the Owen tournament made me think this would end up being for Bandido’s ROH Men’s World Championship.
I loved the idea of Swerve winning the ROH Championship and AR Fox winning the ROH TV Championship and the two basically re-forming The Embassy to take over Ring of Honor.
Only half of that seems to be happening as AR Fox is now ROH TV Champ. Swerve won’t be going after Bandido’s title. Instead they are a first round match in the Owen Hart Tournament.
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Swerve had been doing this weird angle on social media complaining about his lack of TV time, which apparently was a shoot they tried to turn into a work. I was okay with the idea. I’m usually against worked shoots (and if it was a worked shoot then I’m definitely not into it) but as a work? I’m okay if heels are mad at the promotion. So many immediately assumed AEW were the bad guys there. Swerve Strickland has been very open in trying to injure wrestlers and AEW decided to cut his TV time. I get it.
But it looks like this is being adjusted a bit, Swerve will be on TV this Wednesday, and will face Bandido at Double or Nothing.
Bandido just defended his ROH Men’s World Championship against Blake Christian at Supercard of Honor 2026 but also lost to Volador Jr. at CMLL Domingo Familiar. I think some people forget that Bandido also lost to Andrade el Idolo at Revolution which never resulted in a title shot for the ROH Men’s World Championship for Andrade.
This tells me that Tony Khan doesn’t care if Bandido loses this match (if he chooses to book him that way) and it won’t lead to anything in ROH. This is only about the Owen Hart Tournament. He’s got a loss against Andrade, he didn’t win the TNT Casino Gauntlet at Dynasty, and now he might lose this. Doesn’t make Bandido look good in big matches.
On the other hand, if Bandido does win? It could set up a second round match against tag team best buddy Brody King. The two haven’t fought each other since PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2019. Bandido won that match. Would be interesting if he could be his big buddy again.
Before he can do that? Brody has to get through Claudio and Bandido has to get through Swerve. Swerve has to be a favourite in this tournament just under Will Ospreay. It’ll be interesting if his lack of TV time hurt him or helps him.
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